Julie Yoo
@julesyoo
GP @a16z investing in healthcare; co-founder @kyruushealth; alum of endeca, HST, MIT, SFS.
Why will healthcare be the industry that benefits the most from AI? ⚡️ the leapfrog opportunity given lack of sunk cost bias due to low adoption of enterprise SaaS tools in the last 2 decades ⚡️ the existential supply-demand mismatch crisis ⚡️ the existence of regulatory rails…
Hear @zerogee and @BeharCameron drop wisdom on transitioning from resource-rich Meta and Google to the 0-1 of founding @sprinterhealth, where they've built a logistics and supply-demand matching engine that powers a soon-to-be national scale home-based care business. Some…
Fortuna Health has raised an $18M Series A from @a16z to double down on modernizing Medicaid. 2.5 years ago, we set out with the lofty goal to build the TurboTax for Medicaid and government coverage. Sounds easy… until you’re learning the eligibility, deadline, and…
The Medicaid world needs @hifortunahealth more than ever: because of the relentless pace of federal and state Medicaid policy changes over the last few years, Medicaid eligibility is getting way more complex. A lot of the chatter has been focused on reduced eligibility, but…
"We're bankrupting our country, and the entire sector's answer to this unsustainable situation is 'give me more money' or 'don't cut my money'." With that fiery statement, Paul Markovich, CEO of Ascendiun (parent company to @BlueShieldCA) led us into our fireside chat at AHIP…
Headed to AHIP 2025 in Las Vegas? Don’t miss Next-Gen Health Care: Disruptive Business Models in Action — a dynamic panel exploring the future of care delivery. 🗓️ Tuesday, June 17 🕥 10:15 AM PT 🎤 @julesyoo, General Partner, @a16z Bio + Health & 🎤 Paul Markovich, Chief…
And we’re seeing this in recent organic growth / adoption rates, esp in provider facing tech: open.substack.com/pub/healthtech…
Everyone hates on the healthcare industry because of its lack of tech adoption beyond EHRs. But with AI, it's actually a strategic advantage - there's less friction to rip and replace legacy tech. “We don't have the sunk cost bias that other industries have...we can just leap…
Headed to AHIP 2025 in Las Vegas? Don’t miss Next-Gen Health Care: Disruptive Business Models in Action — a dynamic panel exploring the future of care delivery. 🗓️ Tuesday, June 17 🕥 10:15 AM PT 🎤 @julesyoo, General Partner, @a16z Bio + Health & 🎤 Paul Markovich, Chief…
Medical coders are expected to read the equivalent of half a To Kill a Mockingbird—about 50,000 words—just to process a single inpatient record. From there, they must distill that narrative into 19 billing codes, chosen from a list of ~140,000. They do this multiple times an…
AI tools are being applied to healthcare to transform a ~$4 trillion market offer up immense opportunities for startups and innovation. Learn more from @julesyoo, @a16z general partner: a16z.com/why-will-healt…
The exact phenomenon I described below at the @hr_transform Conference is manifesting in the form of @thatch_ai’s Marketplace, which was announced today; as consumers have become a "new class of payor" (we spend a collective ~$500B / yr out of pocket on healthcare products and…
As out-of-pocket healthcare spending hits nearly $500B, consumers are emerging as a new class of payor says @julesyoo, a16z general partner. Learn about the opportunity here: a16z.com/consumers-as-a…
This will happen in healthcare - rather than having to use your judgment about which digital health app to use for what, there will be an AI doctor superapp that knows your full personal context and auto triages across a network of subcontracted providers in the backend based on…
We discuss how AI disrupts the current app paradigm, why now for AI-assisted glasses, emerging competitive dynamics and startup biz models, and what the world could look like in a post-mobile phone era: youtube.com/watch?v=qEjTz2…